Government Quote by Laurence J. Peter

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

— Poonam Dhillon

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

— Charley Reese

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

— Corazon Aquino

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there,…

— Ed Crane

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any…

— Ben Aaronovitch

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead…

— Samuel Smiles

What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

— Thomas Carlyle